I haven’t been writing enough this week. I think only a couple thousand all week. I’ve been busy, is part of it, and I haven’t felt that well on top of it. I have a stomach ache that’s lasted since like Wednesday. This corresponds with my attempt to eat slightly better. Maybe my digestive tract …
Tag Archive: Writing
Nov 03 2010
NaNoWriMo Day 2
Some stats for you (really for me): Day 2/30 (7%) Words for Nano 11500/50000 (23%) Words to Minimum Publishable Length 11500/80000 (14%) Chapters 3/21 (14%) Projected length: 98000 (196% nano, 122% min publishing) Projected time frame to 50000 ~7 days Projected time frame to 98000 ~15 days I don’t think I’ll be keeping this pace, …
Aug 31 2010
Road Trip
I am about to drive to South Carolina, on Friday, from LA, which will be quite the adventure. I’m planning on being in SC for the next couple of months, working on some various projects, and hopefully getting some writing done. Debating pursuing more screenplays or another attempt at a novel, it’s weird though, I …
Jun 17 2010
Published at Salon
So, it’s been an interesting day. I should have known when I woke up slightly more willingly than usual with Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance stuck in my head. Anyway, I cross publish my blog on OpenSalon, Twitter and Facebook because it’s automatic and low-effort. I’ve been writing lengthy Prop 8 things for a while, they’ve …
Jun 15 2010
World Cup: Day 4; Writing D4aD
Netherlands v Denmark Netherlands won as expected with the added bonus of a freak Denmark own goal. Japan v Cameroon Japan with an upset over Cameroon. Italy v Paraguay Italy was supposed to trounce Paraguay, and instead they ended up trailing for most of the game, and just pulling out a tie in the second …
Jun 07 2010
Internet help?
Using the massive power of, um, asking a question on my blog in the hopes that someone who reads it knows the answer, does anyone know if there’s a place online where I can watch the world cup games after they air? As in, I have no plans to be up at 7am to watch …
Jun 01 2010
ScriptSavvy Feedback
I sent the second to newest draft of Bible Con into ScriptSavvy for their April contest. I got my feedback back, I got 56/60 which is on the low end of what their winning scripts normally score (I didn’t win). Based on the feedback, I don’t know that I can get it much higher than …
May 05 2010
Advice for 2010 Grads Coming to LA; 15 things
The Bitter Script Reader posted some advice about how to survive to move to LA. I tried to comment over there and it won’t let me, but this is what I said. 1) Get settled so that you’re as comfortable as possible — living out of boxes makes everything seem transient. Have roommates or whatever, …
May 01 2010
Bible Con Rewrite
Nicholl 2010: Submitted ScriptSavvy April: Submitted Mysterious Director #1: Sent Mysterious Director #2: Sent Mysterious Manager: Sent Family Friend Who Writes on Awesome TV Show: Sent Mom, friends, internets friends: Sent (If I missed you, holler)
Apr 28 2010
Sometimes there is truly great wordsmithing on teh internets
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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